Whatever the merits of this particular defamation claim, the president has a long history of abusing the legal system to punish constitutionally protected speech.
The lessons "America's Finest News Source" could offer the rest of the press.
The president's portrayal of journalism he does not like as consumer fraud is legally frivolous and blatantly unconstitutional.
A Coca-Cola truck "full of kids" turned out to be a police charity.
"We're gonna come after the people in the media," the Trump stalwart warns. "Whether it's criminally or civilly, we'll figure that out."
Despite his cluelessness, the former president's inclination to punish constitutionally protected speech reflects his authoritarian disregard for civil liberties.
A new study finds that conservatives are especially likely to share information from sources that a "politically balanced" sample of Republicans and Democrats deemed untrustworthy.
Corey Harris attracted widespread news coverage—including from Reason—when a video showed him behind the wheel during a court hearing about a suspended license. Except he never had a license at all.
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Major Fox talk show hosts knew that Trump's claims of a stolen election were false, but chose not to say so on air, for fear it would anger their audience.
There is "no evidence of a meaningful relationship" between Russia's influence campaign on Twitter and the 2016 electoral outcome.
The alarm aroused by the Disinformation Governance Board is understandable given the administration’s broader assault on messages it considers dangerous.
This “unprecedented crisis for democracy” is neither unprecedented nor a crisis for democracy.
French President Emmanuel Macron is authoritarian-light. Candidate Marine Le Pen is worse.
Harvard Law Professor Guy-Uriel Charles has some useful insights on the problem.
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The bill was introduced by Colorado Senate president pro tem Kerry Donovan (who is also running for Congress).
Government will happily suppress misinformation in favor of misinformation of its own.
The Washington Supreme Court overrules a trial court's order requiring the removal of one such statement; but what should the general rule on this be?
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What happens when a prank or spoof sparks a real belief?
This preposterous claim is front and center in a new PragerU video.
After failing to frame Robert Mueller, Elizabeth Warren, and others for sexual misconduct, the infamous Trumpster hoaxers tried to go after Fauci. But the woman they hired to play the victim had second thoughts.
Calls to U.S. poison control centers are up. They have been since March.
Coronavirus misinformation is spreading faster than the disease itself.
No, Californians aren't banned from showering and doing laundry on the same day. But the fact that so many people believed that lie says something about how insane the state's real water laws are.
Singapore ordered Facebook to attach a "false information" message to a news story written by a government critic.
The video Abbott shared was not of a homeless person—it was a mentally ill person having a serious episode. Whoops.
Deepfakes don't pose a novel threat, and they have many exciting applications that would be stymied by legal restrictions.
Friday A/V Club: A prank from the final days of the Soviet Union
Most "news" is just press releases and breathless exaggerations of isolated problems.
The viral clip was misleadingly edited, and stripped of important context
Countries across the world tackle political misinformation with authoritarian censorship.
It may be time to hire a libel service.
Researchers made no effort to link the two.
The supposed plague of misleading and harmful information on the internet is nothing new, nor is governments' desire to muzzle anybody who says inconvenient things.
Right after 290 people were killed in a series of Easter Sunday bombings
